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Published by Art Market Australia Pty Limited This book by Ms Aoyagi is perfect for anyone wanting simple, festive designs. The 60 page A4 book is ring-bound and uses landscape format, allowing easy access to the diagrams, which have been …Continue reading →

illust. Carla Mihelich. ISBN 187918175-4 A4 hardback 48 pages Subtitled “An origami Fold-and-Tell story, this is a richly illustrated guide to making the Flapping Bird. Each double page has an evocative and colourful illustration on one side and steps towards …Continue reading →

Published by Airstrip 200 pages soft cover A5 format ISBN 978-0-9757463-1-8 As one of the youngest origami societies around, Folding Australia seem to be showing the rest of us how to present origami. Their website is superb and this is …Continue reading →

Published by Modern Science 180 pages soft cover 18*25 cms ISBN 978-85-7393-630-8 This is an interesting format for a book. It’s essentially a model collection, properly bound, with a colour cover, but published and marketed as a book. There’s an …Continue reading →

Published by CreateSpace, 114 pages softback, 8.2 x 8.2 inches, ISBN: 978-1438218045 As the author of a book felt by some to be “near the knuckle”, I thought I’d probably be a suitable person to review this book. In terms …Continue reading →

Editorial Salvatella ISBN 978-84-8412-446-7 56pp hardback 10”x9” It’s always frustrating when you discover an excellent book that has somehow fallen under the radar – this one came out in 2007 but I’d never heard of it until Edwin Corrie graciously …Continue reading →

Trafford Publishing 122 pages US letter size, softback ISBN 142513421-1 The second book on the subject of “realistic” flying planes by Tem, it follows the pattern of the first book – complex (but not overly so) designs that actually look …Continue reading →

Tuttle Publishing 96 pages, hardback 22x28cms ISBN 1402752512 Engel is a science writer, graphic designer, and architect, perhaps best known to us as author of the seminal work “Folding the Universe: Origami from Angelfish to Zen” (1989), one of the …Continue reading →

64 pages (over two booklets) Tuttle Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0804840279 30.8 x 15.6cm (the box!) Origami Butterflies is a collection of twelve designs by origami artist Michael LaFosse. Along with 96 sheets of paper, you get two small booklets with the …Continue reading →

Hinkler Books (Australia) spiral bound hardback ISBN 978-1-7418-2567-1 Matthew is best known for his exemplary work with Folding Australia and Oribotics, his robotic origami artwork. Here is his first book, written with the help of members of the Melbourne Origami …Continue reading →